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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GRIANAN ÀRDRIE Grianan Àrdrie
Grianan Àrdrie
Grianan Àrdrie
Duncan Ferguson
Donald Mathieson
J Campbell
261 A name applied to a large rock on the seaside at which are the remains of a building apparently having been of some strength, no information as to its antiquity or origin.
Signification Grianan "a sunny spot"
Ardrie not known.
BEALACH GHILLEAN DUIBH Bealach Ghillean Dhuibhe
Bealach Ghillean Dhuibhe

Bealach Ghillean Duibh
Duncan Ferguson
Donald Mathieson
J Campbell
Gaelic Orthography
261 Applicable to a small pass or opening in the steep precipitous side of the western slope of Cnoc Moy. Deriving this name from the circumstance of a swarthy lad being killed here while endeavouring to rescue a female prisoner from the hands of a man who kept her on Grianan Ardrie, situated immediately below.
Sign. [Signification] Pass (of the) black lad.
ALLT LEANAN SITHE Allt Leanan Sithe


Allt Leanan Sithe
Duncan Ferguson
Donald Mathieson
J Campbell
Gaelic Orthography
261 A small stream falling into head of Glenbreackrie Water
Sign. [Signification] Burn of the fairy meadow

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[Initialled] H.Y. March 1916

Names revised March 1916

Allt Leanan Sithe [note]
(Campbelton Ph. [Parish])

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